If the sausage Bologna is pronounced "Balloney" in english, how is the city of Bologna pronounced?
Side note: It’s also called Parizer in reference to Paris, the city that is neither Bologna, nor Lyon, another french city which would be the actual origin of the sausage.
If wetness is the property of having water on something, what is the property of something in water?
I’m firmly on the side of “water is not wet” in this debate, but it’s a question that I was asked while I was high and have no answer to it. Water cannot itself be wet because you can’t get water on water. However, what is a fish in a lake? It can’t be wet until it’s taken out of the water, but it’s not dry...
Every other species in the world gets to go out in their birthday suit...
… but when humans do it, it’s automatically NSFW....
Start saying "tock-tick-tock-tick" repeatedly and you somehow end up saying "tick-tock-tick-tock"
Besides breakfast and books, is there any other use for a nook?
I did not intend for that to rhyme.
Our entire existence may be a sort of stable spacetime bubble that can pop at any moment.
Like ants nesting on a river bank, some only live a few days. A colony could live for many ant generations on a riverbank but when a big flood comes their entire world is wiped out.
Architects who design and propose glass buildings may have increased carbon emissions for decades
Someone's put salt in their coffee and liked it
Loyalty should never demand a reward.
Loyalty should never demand reward. Loyalty itself is the reward. Else it’s just prostitution by another name. (This thought inspired by golf)
Do kids talk like cartoons or do cartoons try to talk like kids?
There are certain action phrases in cartoons that kids imitate. There’s also a kind of children’s books writer tone to many programs, simplified language, certain ways of explaining things slowly or expressing emotions
Creating a playlist for a work gathering. It* occurred to me that pleasing everyone is impossible, but pissing them all off is super easy.
Something for everyone means that someone will hate something.
Defederation is just another form of censorship
Isn't it weird that we'll never (ever?) talk about lightnings as a potential renewable energy source ?
Seems to my ignorant eyes that we could always somehow split the power received into more manageable units, even if it has to be splitted a million times, 🤷♂️.
Thermostatic faucets are like printers, years of development and they still break easily
Trees are air roots.
Shit faint
Why is it that I almost faint if I try to shit really hsrd?
Lemmy is so good right now because there are no kids here
8am looks a lot like the word Bam
If the mind can break and bend, then the mind is an object
What if cars grew from use - like animals. A lot of people with big/small vehicles today would be flipped around.
Just thinking about all the… Shall we say “under used” pickup trucks in my neck of the woods. Bought to look like the owner moves shit - when in reality it just signals to me they have the money to make others do it for them.
Given that we vote for entire comments, we don't expect people to split their comment into many sub-comments.
A different thing are conversation back and forths: each comment is in a new branch of the comment tree.
As income or wealth inequality changes, so could the composition of students in elite universities. There could be different proportions of legacy students.
I also wonder whether there could be factors that determine how many students would be considered wondrous or how many would be considered more extrinsically motivated.
If we measured value by utility, what would be the most valuable thing in the world?
Obviously, water/food can’t be considered because they’re essential for everyone.
A note to MicroSD card makers: I would pay an extra dollar for a card without an adapter.
I’m not saying nobody needs an adapter. Just that some of us have way too many already.